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...foreign banks could decide to cut off credit lines to overseas branches of Japanese banks. If Japanese bank branches here lose their access to credit--and hence their ability to do business--they might be forced to sell their huge holdings of U.S. Treasuries to stay afloat. That could trigger a sell-off in the bond and stock markets...
...another, people who haven't acted with care in the past are making a large effort to do so now. Many militia members, who are often portrayed in the media as groups of raving, trigger-happy madmen, are very rationally and deliberately avoiding provoking federal agents...
...Leighton Smith said. "This obviously is a very emotional issue. But I don't anticipate that there will be problems" for the American troops. The investigators will begin examining graves on Tuesday for planned excavation. Reports that thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Bosnian Serbs near Srebrenica helped trigger NATO's peacekeeping mission. TIME's Massimo Calabresi says that while this week's action is mostly exploratory, the involvement of U.S. troops is significant. "People who have criticized the IFOR mission will certainly applaud whatever role U.S. troops undertake in guarding the war crime tribunal investigators." While this...
...Thunderstorms, say scientists, can trigger ASTHMA attacks--even in people who have never had one. Water and wind gusts release asthma-triggering particles from pollen...
Following the Cornell loss, Harvard ran off a string of 13 consecutive victories, running its Ivy League opponents off the court with its trigger-happy, nationally-ranked, offensive attack...